Continuities of Conflict: Reanimating "Tradition" in Religious Studies

Join us for the Hartshorne Lecture: Continuities of Conflict: Reanimating "Tradition" in Religious Studies.

Professor Molly Farneth is a professor and chair of the religion department at Haverford College. Her research and teaching focus on modern Jewish and Christian thought, from the 19th century to the present, with particular interest in social and political ethics. She is interested in how Jewish and Christian thinkers and writers have conceived the relationship between religious diversity and democracy, as well as how members of diverse communities confront ethical conflicts and forge solidarity across religious and other differences.

Farneth is the author of Hegel’s Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation (2017) and The Politics of Rituals (2023), and the winner of the American Academy of Religion's 2024 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion (Analytical-Descriptive Studies). She is working on a book about the activist-intellectual Grace Lee Boggs, and is co-writing a book with Prof. Fannie Bialek (WashU) on friendship and the ethics of care.